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by prvc 5y ago
>So you don't think psychological abuse is domestic violence? It doesn't follow that making a distinction between the two concepts entails approval of instances of either one.
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by prvc 5y ago
That would be another possible interpretation of the phrase, but I think it is the less plausible one due to other contextual cues in the above text. In fact, the following quote appears on p. 128 of the same thread, posted by the same acco
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by prvc 5y ago
It is an interpretation, not a conclusion, based on the premise that one would have known before the ruling whether or not the allegations described an instance of DV, if the term had been interpreted according to its traditional meaning.
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Allegations need not be true...
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Cause of death?
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by prvc 5y ago
>This video was remarkable for the fact that it maintained pretty much a perfectly equal number of likes and dislikes for years (rarely off by more than 1). It was a tacit agreement among viewers: if you saw a mismatched count, it was yo
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by prvc 5y ago
I don't like this one, as each voter has decisively chosen one side. In aggregate, the voters are ambivalent rather than neutral. Better had it received no votes at all.
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>They are talking about actual attacks This is a fallacy known as "begging the question".
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By referring to the act of disliking the video as an "attack", they are framing this change as one which protects users, when in fact, only a small minority post videos, and a smaller portion among them are bothered by dislikes. I
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by prvc 5y ago
> am I not allowed to hold an opinion on whether what I thought was done to me was a "terrible thing" or not? You are, but you have done more than that, namely to minimize the experiences of others. When someone says, "I,
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by prvc 5y ago
This is a common misconception, but, were it true, what relevance would it have to the question at hand?
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Of the proposition that any doubt should never be applied to you and what you say, unless and until it has been definitively disproven: I, for one, am skeptical of its falsity.
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A peculiarly characterized factoid. What proportion of taxes ought to be due to those activities in the article's view?
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Counter-point: https://www.commentary.org/articles/gary-morson/the-pevearsi...
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The Twitter thread doesn't actually explain how this plan was supposedly to be implemented, but does contain a link to the original document.
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The number of doses administered should be not decrease as time increases.
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Airplane! is considered to be a good comedic film. Bearing that in mind, what makes you say that its writer lacks talent?
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Is the cable necessary? Can they no longer charge through the USB ports?
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The keybed now appears to be of a similar color to the keys. Does this indicate that the keyboards are now easily replaceable units?
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by prvc 5y ago
>Though today Benjy and most of the Fugate family descendants have lost their blue coloring, the tint still comes out in their skin when they are cold or flush with anger. I wish they had included at least one photograph of this.
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Also worth considering is how this would prevent re-use of products using this material, and uncertainties over the breakdown process (perhaps it becomes likely to stop when it reaches a certain size)
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See also: Moore's Paradox.
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Is “Twenty years ago today” a reference to something?
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I like Borges, but this is one of his weakest stories. The mathematical point made is on the trivial side (and most readers who praise it interpret it as merely making a mathematical point). It is a bit stronger if read as an implicit criti
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Will the "lying to shareholders" argument hold up under scrutiny, though? The putative knowledge they supposedly withheld is extremely vague, and what's more, pertains to very sensationalistic topics. The delta between appear
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by prvc 5y ago
What concrete information has been revealed that implicates Facebook in illegal behavior? How does the "whistleblower"'s stated desires wrt goverment-mandated moderation standards differ from those articulated by representati
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New Large Study: No Benefit to Circumcision for HIV Transmission (N=569,950)(auajournals.org)
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>I wouldn’t go far as to say Von Neumann was smarter than Grothendieck He famously recounted his inability to derive Heron's formula for the area of a triangle when he was a teenager (despite realizing that such a formula ought to e
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by prvc 5y ago
When I was a child, I enjoyed working through a book called "Hungarian Problem Book", which contained much more interesting and fun problems than I had seen up to that point. It certainly had a stimulating and energizing effect on
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Wait, are we expected to trust the chat popup that refers to us as "comrade"?

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